DESTINATION kazakhstan
compulsory social health
insurance system in Kazakhstan
On the eve of the introduction
of the compulsory social health
insurance system in the Republic
of Kazakhstan, the World Monitor
Magazine talked to the Minister of
Health, Mr Yelzhan Birtanov, about
its innovations.
Yelzhan Birtanov,
Minister of health
of the Republic of
Kazakhstan
Since 1 July 2017, the country is beginning
to introduce a system of compulsory health
insurance, based on the joint responsibility of the
state, employers and citizens. Starting from 1
January 2018, citizens of Kazakhstan and insured
persons will receive medical services under the
compulsory social health insurance program. Tell
me, please, what are the plans to implement the
packages and what will they include?
The basic package includes preventive
vaccinations, ambulance, medical assistance
The amount of contributions and deductions
per month
for emergency indications, inpatient and
inpatient medical care for socially significant
diseases, as well as for diseases that are
dangerous to others. It will be available to all
citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Along with this, outpatient care will be
provided with medicines for people who do
not have the right to medical assistance in the
general health insurance system until 2020,
that is, before the introduction of universal
declaration.
The second is a package that includes
medical assistance financed by mandatory
insurance contributions and deductions to
the Fund. It can be received by persons who
are participants in the system of general
medical insurance. These are patient services
with outpatient drug support, inpatient
and inpatient medical care, rehabilitation
fund of
social
medical
insurance
5,029 tenge
2,281.6 tenge
2,828 tenge
1,414 tenge
state
employer
individual
enterpreneur
monthly in 2018
14
world monitor
representative
of inactive
population
1,597 tenge
employers
monthly in
2019